A great prize for any deviant user: the Daily Deviation (DD) award!

I’m so happy, I’ve just discovered I’ve won a daily deviation on Deviantart.com, which is an art community. When you know that there is more than 50 millions pictures in the database, 8 millions users and probably more than 50’000 people connected at the same time and probably hundred thousands of members! A daily deviation is the award they give each day to what they consider being an outstanding work for the community. Therefore, I’m posting it here for you. You can also download the wallpaper version of it in different sizes, all for free! Just click below on the size you prefer it:

A few portraits made at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The site is actually pretty interesting, and having a Minolta 28-70mm f/2.8 G lens makes it even easier! Hope you like the start of the Outdoor Portrait Gallery!

When doing portraits, postproduction has an important role to play. It gives different feeling to the same exposure. For the first serie of portraits I’ve posted, I was actually working out the full serie in 3 different outputs:

Color: classical set of contrast and saturation, with making sure the right white balance is set up for great skin rendering

B&W Infra: low kelvin temperature to give strong contrast, and stronger colour push in the red channels. Result is harsh and contrasted output, to emphasize on strong emotions.

B&W Oldish: higher kelving temperature, some split toning and yellow channel push. Result is something more anitque, a bit stuck in the time, quite romantic.

You can find the 3 effects in the same order below:

For your personal use, I’ve placed for free the 2 B&W presets I’ve been working with on studio portraits. You can use it for free, and let me know if you like it! I’d be very happy to see how it works for you!

Another accomplishment today: I’ve finally set up the website final name… www.JHGPHOTO.com Hoora (again!). I’ve also eventually subscribed a permanent account to the Squarespace fantastic website builder and hosting. I’m even now more serious about posting and keeping this site living and full of content. I’ll probably write later on this unique publishing and hosting platform that Squarespace is, when I’ll have more experience with it.

So the first photography I’m posting today are coming from a studio photoshoot made in June this year.. That would already make a good start for the second posting!

Eventually I’ve started my website on photography! After many thoughts and discussions, several photosites and forums participation, I’m very happy to finally share with all of you a little space on the Internet! Here are a few purposes I’ve in mind: